Purdue Events Calendar

June 20, 2008

EDITORS: This calendar lists events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next four weeks. Events are free, except where noted, and are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings are designated by two asterisks (**).

Events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar at https://calendar.purdue.edu

EVENTS

-- June 21. 8:10 a.m. Third Street and McCormick Road, West Lafayette. Salt and Light Christian Fellowship, a student organization, is sponsoring a charity coed volleyball and Ultimate Frisbee tournament to support Trinity Mission, a regional nonprofit center that helps people with issues including drug and alcohol dependency. Registration will run from 8:10-8:30 a.m. The volleyball tournament will be split into two skill levels, intermediate and competitive. Participants can sign up as a team of four to six people or register as an individual and be assigned to a team the day of the tournament. Teams must contain an equal number of men and women. People interested in Ultimate Frisbee can register as teams of two to four people or as individuals. The cost is $5 per player. For information, contact faculty adviser Allan Schinckel at (765) 494-4836 or visit https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~aschinck/Project1/
index.html

-- June 24-27. Two students in the Department of Aviation Technology will compete in the 32nd annual all-female Air Race Classic. Purdue's team will be one of 36 competing in the race. This year's race will begin in Bozeman, Mont., and continue to Miles City, Mont., Aberdeen, S.D., Mason City, Iowa, Decatur, Ill., Frankfort, Ky., Franklin, Pa., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Mansfield, Mass. The total distance covered will be about 2,009 nautical miles (2,312 statute miles). The winners will be announced at a banquet June 29 in Mansfield. For information, contact team captain Marie Janus at (219) 241-6604, mjanus@purdue.edu.

** -- July 4. 7 p.m. Slayter Center of Performing Arts. Stars & Stripes Celebration featuring the Lafayette Citizens Band, Big Swing Band, The Freedom Singers and the Tippecanoe Fife and Drum Corps. Music will begin at 7 p.m. Fireworks will follow the concert at dark around 10 p.m.

** -- July 10. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Purdue Research Park golf scramble at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex. Awards reception features Purdue 1967 and 1968 All-American football player Leroy Keyes and other Purdue athletes including Curtis Painter, the current Purdue football quarterback; Chris Clopton a four-year football letter winner; and Brittany Dildine, a 2006 MVP of the Mortar Board Premier. Scramble is open to individuals or groups. Individual registration is $150 and foursome registration is $450, which includes golf, lunch and reception. Company or organization sponsorships are available for $575 to $750. Event begins at 11 a.m., with a noon lunch, a 1 p.m. shotgun start and a 5 p.m. awards reception. For registration and sponsorship information, contact Kim Vestal at kkvestal@prf.org.

** -- July 10-20. Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis. The 38th annual Summer Celebration of Indiana Black Expo. Purdue is participating in events including Children's Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 14, a corporate luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on July 17, the Youth Empowerment Summit July 18-19 and a Purdue alumni reception at 7:30 p.m. July 18 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Indianapolis. For information, contact Purdue's Special Events Office at (800) 213-3044, (765) 494-0900, events@purdue.edu or go to Indiana Black Expo's Summer Celebration Web site at https://www.ibesummercelebration.co/ 

ENTERTAINMENT

** -- July 9, 16, 23 and 30. 5:30-8 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union front lawn. Each night the Summer Concert series pairs a different musical performance with a menu from one of the Union Commons restaurants, Flatbreads, Urban Market, Lemongrass and La Salsa. The concert, which begins at 6:30 p.m., is free. Dinner, which starts at 5:30 p.m., is $11. Children under 10 eat free. Rain location is the union ballrooms. For information, visit https://www.union.purdue.edu or contact Margie Tucker at (765) 494-8907.

Exhibits

-- Through Aug. 1. Purdue Memorial Union, Robert L. Ringel Gallery. "57/1: Artists from the Premier Edition of the PMC Guild Annual." Works made in precious metal clay made by 57 international artists in the PMC Guild will be on display. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment.

Students

-- Ongoing. Registration under way for fall classes. The fall semester begins Aug. 25 and ends Dec. 20. Students should make appointments with their academic advisers or contact the registrar's office at (765) 494-8581.

Workshops

** -- July 14-18. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Knoy Hall, Room 106, and Michael Golden Labs, Rooms 1208 and B217. Music aficionados can learn from industry professionals how to craft, engineer and customize their own solid-body electric guitar at the second Purdue Guitar Workshop. Instructors will include Tim Shaw, principal engineer at Fender Guitars, and Kevin Beller, vice president of Seymour Duncan, as well as Purdue professors. For information, contact Mark French at (765) 494-7521, rmfrench@purdue.edu.

Conference

-- July 12-17. Ray W. Herrick Laboratories. The 19th International Compressor Engineering Conference and the 12th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference and two short courses. The conferences will feature about 400 research papers and talks by researchers from Scotland to China. The Herrick Labs' 50th birthday celebration is being held in conjunction with the conferences on July 18-19. Information about the conferences and birthday celebration is available at https://engineering.purdue.edu/Herrick/Events/
index.html. Information also is available by contacting Ginny Freeman at (765) 494-6078 or herlconf@ecn.purdue.edu.

OTHer

-- June 22-26. Purdue University campus. TEAM (Technology Expanding All Minds) camp for young women in eighth and ninth grades. Activities will include an exploration of electronic toys and digital electronics, using models in a Lego-building exercise, team-building exercises with faculty from the organizational leadership and supervision department, and a tour of the Purdue Airport. Also, representatives from John Deere, one of the sponsors of the camp, will demonstrate how automatic steering systems work. Contact Susan Martinez Manahan, (765) 494-2331, manahan@purdue.edu.

-- June 22-26. Cheering in the Classroom camp. The camp is directed toward girls, but is open to any student who is an incoming seventh-grader to a high school senior. Participants need no background in technology, but should have an interest in learning more about technology through hands-on activities, such as programming a robot to perform a choreographed dance. Contact Christi Jacobs, (847) 533-4945, cjacobs@purdue.edu.

** -- June 22-27. Purdue campus. The Department of Computer Graphics Technology will offer a beginner's-level camp June 22-27. Students in both camps will learn fundamentals in 3-D modeling, animation, scripting, illustration, image editing, Web design and interactive media development. Participants will use a variety of software programs commonly used by computer graphics artists, including 3D Studio Max, Maya, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and RHINO. Contact Kellen Maicher at (765) 496-1831 or maicher@purdue.edu.

Compiled by Christy Jones, (765) 494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu